#ask balls

Can Arwen do The Eyebrow??

you truly are a maverick and i am most grateful to you. ever since the trilogy came out, we as a fandom have been so busy slashing through the battlefields of hugo weaving elrond discourse that we missed the untapped potential of hugo weaving arwen 😇

Something something Feanor Freudian something

……..AU where the Noldor stay in Valinor because they all misinterpreted Fëanor’s speech in a very specific and yet unified way 😌

Fingolfin DILF-livery!!!

okay so technically this is a version i scrapped, as you can probably tell by the bits i left uncoloured… essentially i decided against the 1800s style colonisercore military attire for the mereth aderthad painting because it’s too intricate to render in that many people, so the final version will be different but same pose and same eagle because i am not drawing that fucking bird again. context for eagle is that i like the idea that the house of Fingolfin absolutely adopted and gobbled up the eagle motif for political reasons after the Thangorodrim rescue.

👇🏽 as you can see he also has a ear-prosthetic like Maedhros, but his is for post-Helcaraxë frostbite reasons, he has an exceedingly biteable mole on his lip yum yum, and the cunty little nose piercing is inspired by @antlered-vixen’s elves who always have excellent facial piercings.

if you think my maglor looks like fëanor then wait till you see my fëanor…

this is a study done with 1 (one) oil painting brushset on csp* hence not as lush as usual i’m afraid, but i feel like that works for this guy. technically i’ve drawn fëanor before but they’ve been either for commissions or very stylised, so meet #myfeanor i guess… boobies out but tastefully censored so that you cannot see his silmaril hiding place (nipple piercings) 😊

COMMISSION DETAILS

As (long 😩) promised, I've put all my prices and commission information on a single post, and here it is, complete with a gallery.

Opening up queue slots to August turnaround now since we've just been hit by The Landlord Surprise (landlord selling his house before the Renter's Rights Bill becomes law because god forbid renters receive rights) and need to find a new place in Hell City at short notice. Available slots/dates are under the cut, I'll strikethrough each one as they're taken.

All commissions via KO-FI (where you can also buy me a house), all reblogs appreciated!

Galadriel took this to Aman with her and when Finarfin asked her about the man she married, she says ‘wait, you can see him’. And Finarfin is standing there assuming she has a portrait in a locket or something normal. Or that she’s going to do some magic fuckery with her fancy hair and idk make a hair portrait of him. But no. She pulls this out. She hands it to her father.

“Press his nipples,” she urges. “Just press them.”

He enquires why, and like honestly fair enough.

“Just press them, Atya.”

Picture me, coughing up this image like a particularly wretched hairball on your bed.

Okay have a blessed day, bye bye!

what the fuck

i can’t stop screaming crying throwing up IS THAT MEANT TO BE ARWEN BRO WHY THE FUCK DOES IT LOOK SO MUCH LIKE ARWEN you know what idk why the fuck elrond was so arsey about her getting with aragorn because CLEARLY IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH WORSE.

lmaooo where the fuck did i or others like me (?????) say “poc elf drawings are useless”? i already talk too much, please do not put words into my mouth.

anyway, this “o great decoloniser” anti-intellectual schtick really is not going to work on me. if you can read the silmarillion then you can read this. this has in fact only pissed me off enough for

😇 a Balls Essay™️ about why surface level representation is a fundamentally flawed moral litmus test in fandom, how consumption is not action, and how displacing material change with symbolic gesture can infact reinforce the structures ostensibly being “challenged” 😇

now. i love seeing historical non-white cultures adapted into tolkien fanart, i think the ‘islamicate’ period stuff is very nice looking, and half the elves i myself draw aren’t white lmao. it’s great, it’s a lot better than it was for sure! never have i said we should have less of that. what i did say multiple times, continue to say, and will probably die saying, is that the prevalence of brown elves in fanart is not a gauge of whether a fandom or an individual is or isn’t racist/otherwise bigoted.

when we get obsessed with treating “whether someone's fictional elf is brown enough” as the sole marker of their bigotry/lack of bigotry, we risk treating racism like it's primarily a creativity problem rather than a power problem. it’s much easier to police someone's character designs than to examine why you’re willing to overlook someone’s proto-fascistic views in favour of their fandom opinions (more on this below 😇).